Robert Kubica says his pace in the opening four rounds of his comeback Formula 1 season has been “much better than it looks” as Williams conti🅠nues to struggle with the performance of its car.

Kubica returned to F1 full-time in 2019 after eight y🥀ears away thr🏅ough injury, but has experienced a tough start to the year with Williams.

A lack of performance in the Williams FW42 car has left the team adrift of the rest of the field, with K൩ubica crossing the line as the last ru𝔍nning driver in all four races, taking a best finish of P16.

Kubica🦩 said there were positives to be found in his displays so far this year, though, even if many of them were masked by the difficulties faced with the car.

“It’s not easy to take ꦐout some aspects which are very, very positive, but I think there are many things that are qu🐼ite positive,” Kubica said.

“Probably some of them are h𒆙idden by general performance. But still a lot of things to improve, 𓂃definitely.

“My driving and the pace is much better than it looks. Unfortunately, we are in this position. As I said it, will be alrea🐽dy goo♔d we will not have additional issues that are taking out confidence and making your driving even more difficult.

“We struggle with the pace, but additionally we struggle with some 🏅other things we have to sort out.”

Willi🍸ams is ඣcontinuing to work to try and get to the bottom of the issues blighting the FW42 car, which appear to have hamstrung Kubica in particular.

Teammate George Russell has been more at ♌ease with the car, prompting Williams to put Kubica in Russell’s chassis for the post-Bahrain Grand Prix test.

The team is understood to have been planning to switch Kubica to a new chassis for the Spanish Grand Prix, only to then have to give it to Russe💫ll after his collision with a manhole cover in opening practice in Azerbaijan.

“We have to get on top of thi💯s issue, and until now we were not able. We have to und🌠erstand it,” Kubica said.

“In China, I was surprisingly happy. In Bahrain, George was happy, and I wasn’t. Friday [in 🐼Baku] I had in some sessions bigger problems, in some sessions smaller problems, but I was never 100% in the situation to dr🌌ive and think about driving.

“As I said at the end last year, I ✤came here saying that I would like to have a go on this track, and it’s still muc🌞h better to be here than staying at home or watching races on TV.”